Not sure, but wanted to mention islandora, a fedora front end for Drupal.
Not sure if it is relevant here. Also there is bitstream module for Drupal
called http://drupal.org/project/bitcache that is quite reliable, not sure
if compatible though
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Jason Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:
> We've tested a Drupal module (http://drupal.org/project/oai_pmh) that
> imports collection metadata from OAI-PMH compliant repositories, and it
> works well enough, but it still puts us in the same but as you with no
> bitstreams.
> We're talking to the company that built the OAI-PMH module about developing
> something for OAI-ORE that will get us the bitstreams (or bitstream links)
> while leaving the master files (i.e. high-resolution TIFFs) in the
> underlying DSpace repository.
>
> -Jason
>
> On Jul 19, 2010, at 11:15 PM, wally grotophorst wrote:
>
> Yes, you have to manually move any actual bitstreams...the OAI plugin for
> Omeka just handles import of metadata (but it does that well).
>
> We've been thinking of using Omeka to provide a 'user-compelling' sort of
> front-end for various "exhibitions" featuring DSpace-based content. I'd
> love to do a wholesale 'skin' of DSpace with Omeka but until accessing the
> bitstreams works in a more automatic fashion, it's not really feasible.
>
> Perhaps that's something OAI-ORE might address or some sort of METS
> implementation could fix but right now there's just the OAI support on each
> end.
>
> - Wally
>
>
>
> Jason Bennett wrote:
>
> Wally,
>
> Yeah, Omeka has the kind of functionality we're looking for, in terms of
> presentation but does the OAI import function only import metadata?
> Do you then have to manually add things like thumbnails, images associated
> with a record, and links to master files like TIFFs or media files?
>
> -Jason
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:10 PM, wally grotophorst <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I've done some work with Omeka (www.omeka.org) as a front-end to DSpace.
>> Omeka supports OAI import so you can spend all you time on fixing the
>> presentation (not worrying about doing the metadata import).
>>
>> - Wally
>>
>> Wally Grotophorst
>> Associate University Librarian
>> Digital Programs and Systems
>> University Libraries
>> George Mason University
>> Fairfax, Virginia 22030
>> (703) 993-9005
>>
>>
>>
>> Jason Bennett wrote:
>>
>> We're looking at using Drupal as a front-end to Dspace repositories and
>> I can't help but think we're not the only ones. Anybody out there doing
>> something like this? We're think of Drupal as primarily a presentation layer
>> to make some collections prettier and interactive but wouldn't be opposed to
>> Islandora scale functionality.
>>
>> Best,
>> Jason
>>
>> --
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>> Kenyon College LBIS
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